I've been an anon since Gamergagte 2014. My state college's newspaper, run by virulent leftists of course, ran a piece at the time about gamergate being a "misogynistic embarassment," so I looked into it and found 4chan and 8chan. As everyone must know by now, 8chan's activity has collapsed since then, but besides 4chan, it feels like all the alt-chans, or the ones that are left, are basically dead. I mean endchan has absolutely no activity now, KC is dead, all the great /intl/ boards are dead, and there's really only mewch and wizardchan. This makes me really sad.

>>20669>they started project chanology and 3 years later by 2016 the internet was killed>3 years later by 2016>2013>Chanology

Nigger what?

>>20671Pretty much this. All the malicious shit like doxing and hacking was nothing new by that time. Just the new herd of idiotic users who didn't belong on the internet because they were too stupid to use it.

>>20648Not dead by any means.Simply after what happened with 2016 elections, all the anti-Trump staff dedicated their time and effort to shut down all rethoric-minded places that could generate such support for a fairly right wing candidate.

On the Trump side, they were afraid that Trump's strategy on internet could be left for learning, so they also had interest in burning down the records by killing the activity.

Either way, monthly book threads, etc, too much good treatment to last for a long time.

>>20671>normalfagsI like how the term "normal" used to be used to refer to those who liked 3dpd, then non-incel, then non-pervert, then non chan user and finally just everyone except you and whatever elite class you ascribe yourself to. But this is a great example of what happened to the chans. For a long time when 4chan was "secret" all the best content came from there and a few smaller chans, in privacy the best content floated to the top like cream, then eventually out into mainstream until it became diluted, over used and shit. Unfortunately the secret didn't last long and with the massive influx of new users an original culture was drowned out but the system could still work if not for the clamping down and strict rules to try and control the new influx of users and rapid content. The same with 8chan, it was great when it first started and as it grew it just got better until a massive influx of new users diluted the culture and people started getting really strict about what was the culture and how to police the users until it completely died, no new content came because it was too strict.Truth be told the chans and much of the web in general died because it's too tightly controlled and in that space people stop having fun and when it's not fun they don't create content until all you have left is viewers like with television just waiting for someone to entertain them who tune in, day after day, saying things like "It's 500 channels with nothing good on" but who sit bored in anticipation that someone else might do something fun. This really also stems from the school system and how it has increasingly crushed each new generation, John Gatto perfectly describes this situation that kills imagination and ambition. If you're bored, it's no ones fault but your own.

>>20716> and people started getting really strict about what was the culture and how to police the users

This is prime normalfaggotry, not recognized if you are one. The one and only thing that defines all normalfags is that they stop doing their own thing under this percieved pressure from the crowd. Chan users who got demoralized and couldn't handle the influx were succesfully recruited into the lowest tier of normalfags and don't even know it. The borders were gerrymandered around you and you thought all you had to do is stand your ground.

I could neutralize your normalfag dogwhistle about being in the wrong clique with complicated words and call it autonomous self-actualization as they said in the 70's, but your cancer is the kind that finds anything worth of being a retard about.

>>20716>The same with 8chan, it was great when it first started and as it grew it just got better until a massive influx of new users diluted the culture and people started getting really strict about what was the culture and how to police the users until it completely died, no new content came because it was too strict.

You DO know where that massive influx of users came from right? GG. And you can think them for bringing the Redditards who pretty much turned it into Redditchan. That place is an imageboard in name only.

>>20722on other image boards getting banned was a big deal since you couldn't create your own board. But since you can on 8chan it creates this phenomenon where people are not only completely fine with banhappy niggers, they encourage it. The consciquences are the same though, since no one is going to visit your shitty board, and if you try to advertise it a horde of asspained warriors will spam nigger porn ti kill it, as /v/ did no less than three times.

>>20723Honestly, HQ's personal vendetta that's STILL going on to this day is perfect proof that you can't create an alt board on that site. The cripple let Cole get away with fucking murder and then they practically GAVE AWAY our board. The corruption is much further than just BO deep.

Guys all the real action is going on with fbianon, megaanon, and qanon these days. Gamergate is over and long infiltrated but it did help start the culture war allowing the whitehats to set the new golden age for trump and those he chooses to succeed him. So what if the kia mods,cole, hat, and mark mostly ruined everything. I don't honestly want them following the new movement and ruining everything like they did to gg. Let them stay on /v/, kia, and in gghq trying to control people like losers. The real action is with qanon and we really do get to watch a historical movement in real time.

>>20724it wasn't hothweels fault, I have a lot of respect and sympathy for the dude. He had principles and he didn't want to fold them. At the same time he was beholden to the biggest boards on the site, which were co-opted by turbofaggots like mark and kampfy. I understand why he gave up on 8chan, it must hurt him a lot. Besides, no amount of ragging on him could hurt him more than how he lives now.

>>20731The fucker sold us out. He gave a news article logs of "shitposters", He put all the blame on Josh for something that was equally his fault, He took Cole's side even when he did something that put other poster in jeopardy. He took Niko's board from him just for playing a prank, but Cole trying to put innocent people in prison is A-OK.

He's part of the reason /pol/ over there is so fucked up with Kampfy. Oh yeah, totally just a prank bro, what a great fucking prank. The cripple sure as fuck didn't have any problem with /v/ sabotaging any alt board that popped up and believe me there were many. Being able to make your own board and break away from the shit you don't want to be part of, that was one of his goals right? Sure as fuck didn't enforce no cross board conflicts. He just tossed up his hands (which probably used up all his energy for the rest of the day) and said fuck it, I don't want to get involved anymore and let a cabal of turbo autists coopt not just the culture of his site, but reigns of who even controls it.

Free to make a new board to congregate somewhere else? Yeah, sure worked for us didn't it? Over a year of constant cross board conflict and people trying to jail us and spreading fudd about us. Did the cripple care? Of course not because he was too busy making emojis while his site fell apart. It all came to a head when he stabbed us in the back by giving the site to JIM of all people. He may as well have just closed the fucking site down. And don't even get me started on the whole bedanon shit show which proved that the cripple had been lying to us all along about our security and privacy.

Fuck Freddy. He has no standards let alone a leg to stand on (literally).